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The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN.
The Signal Service Weekly weather- But
letin, showing the Conditions for the
Week Ended June 1S-Favorable for Sta
pie Crops.


Week Ended June 1s-Favorable for Sta
pie Crops.
WASHINGTON, June 20.-The sigma
Service weathcr-crop bulletin for the past
week reports that during the week the
weather IS been warmer than the aver
age, except at stations on the Atlantic
and gulf coasts, in the West Gulf STATES
and on the Pacific coast north Of Sar
Francisco. In the wheat aud corn regions
Of the North the excess of temperature
for the week has been from twenty-five to
seventy degrees, and average daily excess
above the nominal Of four to ten de
grees.. The greatest excess of tempera
ture occurred in the Northwest, and the
weather conditions Of the week are re
ported as especially favorable foi
corn and wheat, except in sec
tions of Illinois, Iowa and
Eastern Missouri, where all crops except
corn have been more or less injured by
the drought In the cotton regions the
temperature has differed but slightly
from the normal, except in Arkansas and
Texas, where the daily average has been
from two to three degrees cooler than
usual. In the tobacco region, west Of the
Alleghenys the daily excess OF tempe ra-
ture ranged from three to four degrees,
while to the eastward 1t has differed
but slightly from the normal for the
week. The temperature for the season
from January to June, 1887, in the cotton
and corn regions has been In excess of the
daily average, ranging from one to two
degrees, while on the South Atlantic and
North Pacific coasts aud in Northern
California, the temperature for the season
has been slightly below the normal
During the week there has been a de-
fciency Of rainfall generally Throughout,
the arIcultural regions east of the Rocky
Mountains, except In sections of Mich.
gan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Nebraska and
Kansas, where slight excesses are report
ed. The greatest deficiency of rainfall
occurred in the Southern States, the
Lower Ohio and Central Mississippi val
leys. This deficiency in the cotton region
has not probably as yet affected the crop
unfavorably, owing to the numerous and
well distributed showers Of the previous
week Reports generally show that more
rain is needed in that section. Sigh,
deficiencies OF rainfall are also reported
in New England, but generally throughout
the Northern States numerous and well
distributed showers have occurred, except
in Illinois, where rain is much needed.
The large seasonal deficiency of rainfall
in the Southern States has been increased
during the week and now ranges from ten
to sixteen inches in the cotton region.
The seasonal deficiency in Iowa, Illinois
and Southern Wisconsin exceeds five
inches, while an excess of five inches is
reported from the North Pacific coast and
the Upper Ohio valley.
The week has been generally favorable
for the staple crops There has been
more than the average amount of sun
shine in the central valleys, and the
weather has been especially favorable
for harvesting, which has been largely
completed for wheat and hay in the
Southern States
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
AN OPINION BY BEECHER.
Women to supply the Needed Elements
In Public Affairs.

Rude force. all manner OF uproari-
,us. selfish passions, and base frauds,
secreted, or blossoming out upon the
skin-these are characteristic Of our
public aTaifs. But they are exactly
what we should expect would charac-
terize the administration of man. sep
aratcd from the direct influence of
woman. Without the amelioration
which woman's nature is capable Of
producing upon him, man stands rs
trees stand in this wintry night
strong enough of root, strong enough
of trunk. and strong enough of branch.
but without leaf or blossom.
No sumner comes to man till leaves
come aud blossoms come. And, as it
is in the individual, as it is in the fam
lily, so it is in civil and public affairs.
The masculine element, whatever
strength ii may have, whatever cogrncy
of lower human wisdom wisdom re-
lating to material itics-is deficient in
heroic justice, in disinterested kindness,
in real moral refinement. These are
the very elements which our public af-
fairs need. Woman is appointed for
the refinement of the race. She is
Gods secular ordinance for purity aud
goodness. Shall we understand her
power, and employ it directly, or shall
we iguorantly and by accident take
her indirect uscfulness?-Hearg IFdTd
Rgccbsr
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
Providing Lime for Fowls.

Lime, in some form, is indispensable
for the formation of egg shells, and
should be within reach of the fowls at
all times. Lime from an old ceiling or
bricklayers' rubbish is suitable. Egg
she'll are also excellent, but should not
be given without first being finely
broken, or hens may thereby be taught
10 eat their own eggs. Oyster shells,
SO often recommended. are of little
value. Lime water is the most effect
u,l remedy for hens laying soft-shelled
eggs; a few spoonfuls to pint of water
is sufficient. Egg shells broken finely
and mixed with the meal are also use
ful. Hens in their natural state neces-
sarily pick up-with their food-a
large amount of shell-forming material,
as well as gravel; but when fed with.
out these being added. and left to their
own inclination in picking them up.
they, no doubt, obtain a much smaller
proportion of these necessary adjuucts;
we should, therefore. endeavor to imi-
tate nature by adding these to their
food. america Dairyman.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
Give Them the Credit.

The money for the Calhoun monu-
ment, recently unvailed at Charleston
S. G., was raised by eleven ladies, who
FIRST met to devise plans in lS5i. when
the war broke out, the unds amounted
to 500, 600, securely invested The IN
tclligcncc and fidelity of the treasurer
Mrs. Snowden. saved this from the
wreck of war, although all her private
property was destroyed, In 1851
when the books were examined, it was
found that through the business-l'ke
manner in which the fund was man
aged, the securities had become worth
nearly $5j, 900.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
suicide at Niagara,

NIAGARA FALLS, N. Y, June 20.-About
half-past four o'clock yesterday after
noon party Of visitors who were view
ing the scenery from the Three Sisters
Islands observed middle aged man ap-
parently bent on sight seeing like them
selves, standing on the third bridge that
connects the islands. Looking back a
few minutes later the man was seen to
have his hat and coat of, and was in the
act of les ping from the bridge into the
water. The party were ct too great dis.
tance 10 do ought but stand and witness
the fatals leap The body ssnk ct once
end psosod over the Horseshoe Eall He
yeeve4 n ~ Trigg, 4 waeaiagtea,
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
A Woman's Moral Courage.

Miss Henrietta Muller, Of London,
Eng. lately showed n noteworthy in
stance Of moral courage She went to
court TO watch trial for criminal as
sault upon a young girl When the
case came on the women were ordered
to leave the court. and the poor girl
would have been left all alone among
crowd of men aud boys, some Of whom
were making coarse jokes to aggrayaIe
her misery; but Miss Muller would not
20; she remained. II would be a com
fort to innocent victims if other women
would follow her example in like en-
rumstAnCns.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
The Blue and the Gray.

LYNN, Mass, June 10 Most of the shoe
factories were closed yesterday, and the
city presented holiday appear ancc. The
r. E. Lee Camp, Confederate Veterans,
accompanied by a g. A. Il corps, arrived
here in the morning and was met by the
local militia. On arriving at the City
Hall the mayor and members Of the city
government in carriages, joined in the
procession, and the line OF march was
taken up. The Manufacturers Associa-
tion and citizens generally had made ex.
tensive preparations for the reception Of
the visitors, and the City Hall and many
buildings were profusely decorated.
After the parade speeches were made by
Henry Cabot Lodge and others
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
FOR THE WOMEN.
PLEA FOR SHORT SKIRTS
A Plea for Them as Against the Dlyla..
Garment,

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Garment.
On the subject Of short skirts writ.
er in the IPomGn's Journal saws.
still maintain that the present sbor,
skirts which ladies wear are shor,
enough 10 protect tilcm from the nos,
perverse weather and the deepes. snow
and mud often seen in the streets Of
Europe have seen many lands, In.
eludins Russia. Denmark. Holland
Germany and Switzerland, in rain.
snow and sunshine. In sll those conn.
tries the working-woincn, even. these
who work in the fields, wear skirts
short enough to keep them from the
ground, but no shorter. II such 4
dress sufiices even for country women
who work in the fields in all weathers
in every country of Europe, why should
they not be convenient enough for
equally rough work in America? Let
us not be so fixed upon one subject as
to be blind to justice, even TO short
skirt merely because it is fashionable.
Surely, what suits a woman in the
mountains OF Switzerland, in the
swamps Of Holland. and in the SHOWS
of Russia, ought to be equally suit
able, as regards shortness, for the
busy, hard-working women Of Amer
lea. If not, allow me to mention the
French-woman's shooting costume.
which consists Of short skirt reach
ing to the knees, tight leggings,
CATERS and high boots. This costume
has something of the Scotch-High-
lander about it. and OF the old Ger
man "broom-girl." ! do not know
whether it would find favor with
American ladies, but it would be
preferable to divided skirts, or TO or
dinary trousers, as worn by men,
which get even more dirty than our
prescnt fashionable short skirts.
Perhaps you will think that am Il
fashionable woman. On the contrary.
| am not an advocate of fashionable
dress, as u rule. Only, when see u
fashion that can be adopted by the
great mass of working-women, l am
| glad to mention il. Nothing could
make me recommend stays, or high
heels, or any other dangerous OF exag-
Grated fashion, but respecting the
short skirts, as now worn, our preju-
dice must be very strong against the
word fashion" if we condemn them
merely because they are fashionable
II the working-women Of Russia, Hol-
land, Denmark, Germany, Switzer,
land, and every other country IL
Europe, who know nothing of fashion
find themselves comfortable in shor
skirts, why should these not suit work
lng-women in other countricsP Why
should they not satisfy the good inteh
tons of dress rcformers in generalg
BE sure that if any thing better o
moro convenient to working-womel
than short skirts can be discoveries !
will be adopted. but be equally assurc'
that mere eccentrlcity will not ctiec
this so much-desired and discussed re
form.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25

GRACE GREENwoop says: 81 believe
that for one woman whom the pursuits
of literature, the ambition Of autho'-
ship and the love Of fame have rem,
dered unfit for home life, thousahu
have been made undomestic by poor
social strivings. the follies OF fashion
and the intoxicating distinction wi'ic"
mere personal beauty confers.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25

An improvement on the chestnut
bell has been patented. 1t rings only
N fresh and original jokes, and thus
much labor i saysd.-StS Essss
Aewa
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25

Miss ALICE Z. FREEMAN will read
paper on Colleges for Women oeiore
the National Educational Associate"
In Chicago in July.
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25

TEE Connecticut Legislature ~
psssed bili making women s6gao's
serve On = dA 4
The Osceola times., 1887-06-25
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

On tho 18th while J. A Ryan and Harry
Treloar were drilling out a blast which
missed 6ro In the Paint River mine at
Cryota1 Falls, Mich, the blast went OF,
n1Gu1nG - the heod end srms of both
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The Osceola times., 1887-06-25


| ing to the club.
Mr.. J. j. Journer's dwelling at Russell
vile, was struck by lightning few days
| ago tearing a hole through the roof and
running down the side of the window,
and shat.erin the frame. Mr.. Journer
and his little girl who were in an adjoin.
ing room were both severely shocked, tho
| child being prostrated for several hours.
The examination Of John w ard, charged
with stabbing William Brewer, and John
Barnett, charged as accessory, was had
| before Esquire Dan Hames at Chickala,
| Pope County. Barnett was acquitted, and
Ward was held in bond Of 500, which he
gave. Ward is a half-wttod follow, and
was always con sidered harmless and in
| offensive.
Hope has a Winnie Davis Club.
Farmers in many parts Of the state are
| in for a regular go as you please with the
grsss.s Crops are nourishing, but it is
hard hoeing TO keep down the grass,
which is twenty per cent worse than
last year. In the Cotton Plant neighbor-
hood and elsewhere hoe hands have bsep
getting as much as 81 .25 day
Two hacks daily are required TO carry
passengers between Hot Springs and tho
new mining town of Bear city, while
nbul Eo w HilNdAt iVhNNg hhNt diu ti
horseback There is also hack making
two trips daily between Bear and Crystal
Springs; 1t is constantly crowded with
min ers aud pros pectors.
| A new political p .rty, with the old name
| Of the Grange, Is icing organized
The Governor has ordered a special
election TO be held on June % in Moreland
township, Pope County, for two justices
Of the peace.
The S.ate press, generally, approves the
exhibition of fruits minerals, etc, In the
Little Rock Real Estate Exchange aud
advises the people TO contribute exhibits.
To show up ArSansas real resources is
boom enough they say.
Greed Taylor, aged eighty-seven, died
at his residence, the Ashly place, in JEFF
ferson County, recently. He was born in
Hsrredsb burg, KY, on New Years day.
lS0A and he'd been . resident OF Jeffs isor
County for more than hfty ysars.
| T1s ~ wstsr - ths Arksnsas river ~,
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The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-12
Burned by the Sum.

CHICAGO, August 7th.-F0r two
months and half the Northwest has
3eeu suffering from a terrible droulh.
The district includes 5000 square
miles. bounded IN the nn-th by AfeiisUu, :,
Wis; on the south by Bloomington, III;
on the east by Lake Michigan and on
the west by the Mississippi river. In
many places IN this immense area wells
have gone dry and water famines are
threatened. To add TO the horror, ty-
phOid fever, dysenteIy and other stomach
dist uTb bances have broken out. and it is
feared will become spidemic. The
effect OF the bot weather on the cattle
has been appalling. The pastures have
been burned by the schorching sun and
the numerous outbreaks of fires. Farm
ers have felled trees and turned in theiI
cattle to bT0uSe on the leaves. The cat
tie have become 50 poor that they call
not be sold. At Winslow, this State, 30
head bought last January a: $50 each
were offered for sale last week for slOO.
Good cows have been sold az So. Their
value Is almost wholly destroyed and a
milk famine will doubtless result.
The entire country is in places baked to
crisp. The Wisconsin, corn is literally
burned, and Will not produce one peck
TO the acre. Potatoes are taken from
the ground all shriveled up. Even the
leaves of the trees dre yielding 10 the
long continued drou:h, and fall l!feless
IN showers as. they do after October's
frosts. Beside, there has been great
loss OF property.
In 6dditionto the terrible effects of the
suns awful heat. wild fires have sprung
up in the most mysterious ways. Only
spark seems necessary to produce a
nearly uncomfortable blaze. In a Gem
etery at Racine. Wis, where the remains
of the mound builders earthly monu-
ments are still seen, fire broke out
among the tombs, and the next day in
the very middle of the town, in front of
church, it was extinguished with
great difficulty. Fences. barns and ag-
ricultural implements have been con-
sumed, and the farmers are blowing
bitches around their houses to protect
their homes from the fury of the fame
that springs up without warning and
burns until il exhausts itself. A strange
phenomenon that has been noticeable in
the afflicted district IS that late in the
afternoon rain clouds are visible above
the western horizon and the people hope
and believe that their prayers are about
TO be answered. At night the clouds
dissipste and disappear.
There has been no rainfall for ten
weeks, and unless il comes speedily the
most disastrous results and terrible suf-
fering will follow.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-12
Tie Color Line in Schools.

Some of me more reckless party organs
ar cTItIcisiug O. -Og la for enforcing the
cu!Jr !.ne il The free schools of the State.
ard especially for the action OF the
Georgia House in passing a penal statute
agaiD5. the co education of the races.
IL IS either ignorautly or recklesslY
assumed that this is a fresh eruption OF
Southern nate OF the colored people,
ana is intended 20 deprive them of equal
educationa! advantages.
These ignorant or reckless partisan
critics withhold the facts shat the free
school syptem of every reconstructed
Safe, excepting Virginia, was enacted
by Republican Legislatures or by Re-
publican votes in framing and adopting
State Constitutions and in the cases
of Louisiana. Alabama, Mississippi,
Georgia, and South Carolina, a majority
of the Legislators who enacted the free
school laws were colored men. In every
instance where colored legislators con-
trolled the legislation iDaugurating free
schools in the South, they distinctly
provided for separate schools for the
white and colored races. They did it
because both races preferred it, and be-
cause it assured the more hearty CO -op-
GRAFTON of both IN maintaining universal
education.
The present Constitution of Georgia
provides that there shall be equal educa-
tiDnal advantages to all with separate
schools for the two races. The bill
passed by the Georgia House is in exact
accord with the educational policy of
all the Southern States as framed by
the represen. .atiyes of the cOlured race,
and the practical enforcement of the
system ordained by the colo-ed people
themselves is essential to the harmoni-
GUS effort of al races for universal edu-
cation. The colored citizens of Georgia
want no white children in their schools,
and they are as anxious for their own
exclusive raos schools as are the whites.
Georgia is among the foremost of the
Southern States in her advanced educa-
tional system, and far surpasses Penn
sylvania in the special educational
advantages offered colored people.
Pennsylvania gives open college doors
to colored people in her laws, but the
colored student knows better than to
knock at many of them, while Georgia
has her white and her coloTed State
Universities for the higher instru ction
OF both races, and both are equally sus-
tained by State appropriations. lu
addition there are Normal Schools for
both races, and there are more colored
teachers employed in the single State of
Georgia than are employed In all the
y oIthern States from Maine to Califor-
mia. The color line will always be
maintained in the free schools of the
South because the colore1 people them
selves SO ordered it, because both laces
prefer it, and because il is a necessity
to harmonious free educational system
for all.-PhiLadelphia Times.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-12

Hon HENRY J.. DAWES, who IS one
OF The Representatives os the protective
tartf state OF Massachusetts, il The Uni
ei states Senate, !. Gently delivered
speech before tie Paper manufacturers
Association AT Saratoga Al extract from
which We publish below. Mr.. Dawes
IS a life long Republican and has ALWAYS
been an advocate of a high tariff. but lie
has not forgotten the pledge made Av
MS party st the Chicago Convention
two Years ago to revise The in equdlities
OF the present tariff, nor is he iuseusible
10 tie danger of constantly increas-
ins surplus IN tie National treasury. We
commend mis- common sense views to
Bourbon Republicans who are constant
ly utteriug the parrot cry of free
trade" and who are willing to see the
government annually collecting from
the taxpayers one hundred million of
dollars over and above the amount re-
quired to pay al its expenses. No other
government in the world except that of
the United States thus robs and plum
ders its people. Mr. Dawes said:
In reaching this the protectionist
would place duties on articles produced
at home and thereby encourage ard
stimulate home production instead of
the foreign. The freetTsder would reach
the same limit by collecting that reve-
nue. without regard TO home prOductisn,
from articles on which it can be coslec-
ted easiest ard whose consumption by
our people is d necessity, duty OF no du-
ty. But the limit is the same with both,
and that limit IS the public expenditure.
Now that limit is already passed.
The revenue to-day greatly exceeds the
expenditures, and has so exceeded them
for lons time. The excess is accumu-
lating at rate exceeding 500, ,000, 600
year. The last Of the public debt that
is due before 1891 has been called in,
and we're is no way of paying out dol
lar OF this excess. 1t must go on accu-
muiaiing in the Treasury, and remain
locked up there until unloosed by legis-
latiOn. That boarding of idle money in
the Treasury will, at the present rate,
exceed S4Oe, ,OOO, 600 before 1891, if its
withdrawal from the currency does not
its, If produce business disaster. 1t is
already creating alarm in business cir
cles and at the Treasury. No one can
measure the serious consequences of its
continuance.
The only remedy short of such a
business couvulsion as will stop i'm
portations as well as home produc-
tlon is in a revision and reduction
OF the tariff duties and internal reye-
nue. taxation. Such q revision, look
ing only TO the revenua, has come,
therefore, to be a necessity, confronting
every one, whatever his theory as to the
method and purpose of custom duties.
To those who are for protection as well
as for revenue, 1 have presented other
considerations connected with the great
industrial interests of the country which
makes revision equally imperative.
The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-08-12

bow eager the Republicans always
arc TO grasp at stTaws when the returns
OF State election are being received.
The Ken tucky election took place on
Monday wesk, and from the returns
published on Tuesday II was rs certain
% anything could be that BuckEer, the
Democratic candidate for Governor, had
been elected by from iifteen to twenty
five Thousand majority, yet from some
unwarrpnted and e1travagant claims
made about the middle of the week by
Bradley, the Republican candidate, who
was prepared 20 make an affiiavis that
=, was elected by 5000 of a majority,
some of the Republican papeIs whose
wish was further to their thought &C t.
uaily swallowed the story and almost
went wild over the glorious news.
Some OF them even suggested Bradley
90 the man TO be placed on the Repub-
Jean ticket next year for Vice-Pre
dent. Taking the returns from the
counties that have been received st the
Capitol Of the State and estimating
those Of the few not received, on the
basis of Cleveland's vote two years ago,
BucSEer's majority IS about 1900.
That is enough Cor an off year Just as
Beavers majority in this State last No
vember was enough, although it was
only half as large as Blaine received in
1884. Kentucky is as reliable Demo
cratic State as Vermont is a reliable
Republican State.